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LarsGBV

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Registered: 2015-12-29

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Ownership of /etc, and many other directories.

Hello guys,
just installed Archlinux on another laptop yesterday.

Today I notice that /etc and serveral other directories is owned by my main user account 'lars'

I'm a bit mystified, since some directories/files has the right ownership /etc/sudoers, but others
doesn't have like /etc/systemd and /etc/shadow

Any ideas on why? and how to easiest fix it without a reinstall ?

ie. ls output is

❯ ls -l / 
total 48
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    7 Sep 30 19:18 bin -> usr/bin
drwxr-xr-x   3 lars lars 4096 Dec 27 04:02 boot
drwxr-xr-x  19 root root 3120 Dec 29 08:06 dev
drwxr-xr-x   2 root root 4096 Dec 27 20:24 efi
drwxr-xr-x  60 root root 4096 Dec 29 08:58 etc
drwxr-xr-x   4 root root 4096 Dec 27 04:13 home
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    7 Sep 30 19:18 lib -> usr/lib
drwx------   2 root root 4096 Dec 27 20:31 lost+found
drwxr-xr-x   8 lars lars 4096 Dec 29 08:10 mnt
drwxr-xr-x   3 lars lars 4096 Dec 27 04:54 opt
dr-xr-xr-x 136 root root    0 Dec 29 08:06 proc
-rw-r--r--   1 lars lars 1276 Oct  1 17:16 README
drwxr-x---   5 lars lars 4096 Dec 29 03:51 root
drwxr-xr-x  21 root root  520 Dec 29 08:07 run
lrwxrwxrwx   1 root root    7 Sep 30 19:18 sbin -> usr/bin
drwxr-xr-x   4 lars lars 4096 Dec 28 09:43 srv
dr-xr-xr-x  12 root root    0 Dec 29 09:37 sys
drwxrwxrwt  13 root root  300 Dec 29 09:23 tmp
drwxr-xr-x   8 lars lars 4096 Dec 27 02:19 usr
drwxr-xr-x  12 lars lars 4096 Dec 27 04:06 var

and some of the output for /etc

❯ ls -l /etc 
total 908
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root      0 Sep 30 19:18 arch-release
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root   4096 Dec  6 12:36 avahi
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     28 Nov 23 20:23 bash.bash_logout
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    603 Nov 23 20:23 bash.bashrc
drwxr-xr-x 2 lars lars   4096 Sep 22 19:36 binfmt.d
drwxr-xr-x 4 lars lars   4096 Dec 26 14:19 ca-certificates
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   4096 Dec  5 16:31 conf.d
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    175 Nov  2 19:32 cpufreq-bench.conf
-rw------- 1 root root    930 Sep 30 19:18 crypttab
drwxr-xr-x 2 root lp     4096 Dec  6 12:02 cups
drwxr-xr-x 3 lars lars   4096 Dec 26 15:34 dbus-1
drwxr-xr-x 2 lars lars   4096 Dec 27 22:47 default
drwxr-xr-x 2 lars lars   4096 Aug 14 14:01 depmod.d
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   1356 Dec 27 20:49 dhcpcd.conf
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     42 Dec 27 04:07 dhcpcd.duid
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   3384 Dec 17 09:47 drirc
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root     97 Nov 14 14:12 environment
drwxr-xr-x 4 root root   4096 Dec 27 10:09 fonts
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root    717 Dec 29 09:07 fstab
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root   2584 Sep  1 17:20 gai.conf
drwxr-xr-x 6 root root   4096 Oct  3  2013 gconf
drwxr-xr-x 3 root root   4096 Nov 29 18:01 gimp
-rw-r--r-- 1 lars lars    781 Dec 27 10:22 group
-rw-r--r-- 1 lars lars    770 Dec 27 04:12 group-
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root   4096 Dec 15 15:51 grub.d
-rw------- 1 lars lars    648 Dec 27 10:22 gshadow
-r--r----- 1 root root   3252 Dec 27 21:46 sudoers
drwxr-x--- 2 root root   4096 Nov  3 07:01 sudoers.d
drwxr-xr-x 2 lars lars   4096 Dec 27 14:42 sysctl.d
drwxr-xr-x 5 lars lars   4096 Dec 26 15:34 systemd
-rw------- 1 lars lars    745 Dec 27 10:22 shadow

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Re: Ownership of /etc, and many other directories.

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